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San |||||| Islander
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- '.GENK O. GOULD. Pr«n]il*nt ' * ' ■#^^^<*l^ms%mm
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*^arf f#ie JVeMr Year
RIGHT!
BY OPENING AN ACCOUNT WITH US
I THE SAN JUAN COUNTY BANK
f FRIDAY HARBOR. WASHINGTON
Thanking you for your past favors
and respectfully soliciting your fu*
ture patronage, we wish you all
A HAPPY
and
PROPSEROUS NEW YEAR
SWEENEY & ALLEN
FRIDAY HARBOR, - - - WASHIKGTOH - .
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I CUTLERY AND TOOLS
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I LARGEST and BEST Stock'in the County .
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I ROSS TULLOCH'S HARDWARE
I FRIDAY HIRBOR. WASHINGTON
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THREE GOOD REASONS
Why THIS BANK-should be YOUR BANK
First: A good, influential banking connection is ab^;^;>f
lutely essential to the proper condnct of any business or J:' :
enterprise, public or private.
';^'v. Second:. We have ample resources to guarantee the
-i . safety of all deposits at all times, Our methods are pro- .•;. .
# gressive but thoroughly conservative; we taice no unnec-
J essary risk.
i Third* Our experience and bnsiness judgment enables
us to furnish oui patrons intelligent advice in regard to
investments and other business matters. Patrons of this
bank are invited to consult with any of its officers.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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FRIDAY HABBOB, WASHINGTON, FKIDAY, DECEMBEB, 27 1912
<nbatßa^o«?
There never was a time when there
seemed to be so many problems to
solve as at pressnt, nor a time when
there has been such a diversity of
opinion as to the proper solution.
Following are a few thought-provok-
ers for your consideration at the be
ginning of the new year:
THE BOY'S PERIL
There is much to reflect unon in
the following editorial from the
Oregon Journal:
Four men under 24 are under
sentence of death in New York.
One is under 20. Two men under
24 are under sentence of death in
New Jersey.
Four youths under 24 were re-
! cently hanged for murder in Chi
j cago * One was only 18. .
I The Okalhoma train robbers, who
set fire to a bridge and forced the
engineer to drive his locomotive and
! the express and mail cars over it,
'were.under 25. '■■-
J A Portland boy who lured his
prospective mother-in-law across the
street and shot her dead, r was only
18. *■ _ '- . \ .
The Portland youth who, with
Hazel:: Irwin, lured a victim to his
I death for a few dollars was only 20.
The ; list of youthful desperadoes
could be indefinitely extended.
A Chicago judge recently said
! that the most desperate of all crim
inals are young men between the
ages of 18 and 25. It raises the
question of what society is doing to
correct the condition.
We have an elaborate and costly
system :of machinery for punishing
offenders after the crime is commit
ted. Does anybody know :of any
elaborate and far-reaching system
of prevention? -
"Gyp the Blood" and "Dago
Frank" were products of the under
world system of New York in ccl
lusion with the police. Official au
thority in New York permitted < the
underworld, and society created of
ficial authority. Society itself per
mitted "the system," which in turn
created "Gyp the Blood" and "Da
go Frank." and after thier crime
the elaborate and costly system of
legal machinery is brought forward
to punish.
■ There bad to be environment for
boys of 18 in Chicago, in New York
oi in Fortland to become murderers.
Environment has enormous influe cc
in degrading or criminalizing youth.
"Gyp the Bloods." and "Dago
Pranks" are being fashioned in the
jangletowns of every large city,'
with its lights and lures, its recruit
ing sergeants and outposts on every
street. .
Bat the most society does » to
imprison, "or '"■ hang or electrocute.
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after the crime is committed. It
does little to attack the cause. It
essays little in the way of preven
tion.
Have the parents no sense of the
peril?
BULLET-PROOF SHIELDS
A light metal shield claimed to
be capable of rendering infantry in
vulnerable against rifle bullets is
said to have been invented by a
German engineer named Schaumann.
Volleys fired at a distance of 85
yards by the men of a guards regi
ment during experiments on the
Dahlem rifle range .only slightly
dented one of the newly invented
plates, equivalent in weight to a
plate of nickel steel of six millime
ters thickness f just under a quarter
of an inch.) On the other hand,
The Islander Wishes all Its Subscribers and Patrons
a Prosperous and Happy New Year
bullets fired by the same men from
a similar distance at a plate of nick
el steel seven millimeters thick (ov
er a quarter of an inch) smoot hly
penetrated the metal.
PRESENT DAY PROPHECY
A Seventh Day Adventist preacher
at Seattle talked as follows:
"God is permitting the little flur
ry in the east that the atteniton of
the world may be directed to His
servant's message, given twenty-five
hundred years ago," said the speak
er. "There is just one thing at
this time that prevents universal
war. « The four angels of Revela
tions 7, are commanded to hold back
the winds of strife until the mes
sage is carried to all nations.
"No man." he said, "can fortell
what will happen one minute ahead.
God's prophet Daniel, tweny-five
hundred years ago. told what would
transpire all along down the ages to
the end of time, the present time
being brought clearly to view."
Ihe speaker dwelt at some length
on the world powers as they come
upon the stage of action and show
ed how and when the Turkish, or
Ottoman, empire came, flourished
and now is passing away, and in a
vivid word picture portrayed the
Turk as he shall soon be, driven
from Europe in compliance with the
statement of Daniel 11-45: "And
he shall plant the tabernacles of bis
palace between the seas in the glor
ious holy mountain; yet he shall
come to his end. and none shall help
him."
"The Turk has been receiving
help for years from the powers of
the world, and when the help ceases
the Turk will cease, and through
the division of his empire will come
the "great world strife, which will
usher in the dosing scenes of the
drama in the great controversy be
tween Christ and Satan."
DEMOCRATS TO FAIL
"That the Democratic adminis
tration will be a flat failure goes
without saying* If racQcal tariff
revision or legislation in the inter
est of the working class is attempt
ed the big interests will be heard
from in a way to make the Demo
cratic statesmen hesitate. The in
terests will precipitate a panic
which will paralyze the country.
Wilson will find himself fr.ee to face
with a situation utterly beyond the
Dower of any mortal to control."—
Eugene V. Debs
CHURCH IN SMALL TOWNS
The story of an Indiana village of
262 inhabitants, with sixty-eight
professed Christians, and only twen
ty-eight church members attempt
ing to support three churches, was
related at the federal council of
chruches recently.
Of the sixty-eight Christians in
the village, the forty that were not
members of the three local churches
were; distributed among : nine de
nominations. It was said that no
' young man under 21 ; years old was
a member of any of the three
churches.
ii. This case was selected as typical
of church conditions in many small
towns: Representatives .-. of : state
federations said it was conditions
such as these t that : they were seek
ing to remedy. -
farm Experts Battle With Gale
Horticultural inspector ..- C. E.
lint; state experimental farms di
rector Prof. N W. , Sparks and
Floyd C. •- Kaylor, berry ; grower of
Blame had a thrilling experience
Tuesday night during the storm
which dr.ve the * four-masted ; ship
into the Bellingham flats —the night
the wind blew a gale and even those
comfortably sheltered in houses
shivered with tear, these three i sons
of the soil crossed from West Sound
to Friday Harbor in a small launch
and that they are here to tell the
story is due to th,e fact that the
captain of the launch was a better
seaman than one in a hundred. -
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They had been holding institute
at West S:und and were advertised
to speak here that night. The . boat
man suggested that iit was stormy,
but they were anxious to keep their
date. - When half way, or less,
across the big gale struck them, and
it. was all the launchman r could ;do
to keep the boat from being
swamped. Then, as the wind in
creased in violence and the waves
rose higher and higher, the little
boat and its skipper began a fight
that lasted for nearly an boar.
Much of the time the propeller
was clear out of water. At other
times it seemed like the hugh waves
were breaking high over their beads.
"We would mount on a crest of
tte waves and rock there for a sec
ond, and > then with a swoop down
we'd come—down, down, down to
where it seemed like a water cave,"
mjom&
said Mr. Kaylor, relating the exper
ience to a friend. "The other fel
lows claimed that I tried to keep
the water oat of the boat with an
umbrella, bat it's a fabrication, t
tried to keep myself in the boat and
left the rest to the boatman."
"It was an interesting experience
to tell about now— and to tell the
truth was interesting enough then —
but I don't care to repeat it. I'm
free enough to admit I was fright*
ened. There isn't one man out of a
hundred could have taken us acro&s
that channel that night."
Remembrance from Surniy Florida
A cocoanut. with the outer shell
on. just as picked, came through
the mail to the Islander this week
from James L. Rodger of Maimi.
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iFlorida. Mr. Rodger has: especial
regard for this part of the world —
its beauties, its wonders and its
people, as he has evidenced in for- ;
mer letters. He again gives ex-
Dression to sentiments both sincere
and ". beautiful, not only for, the edi
tor, but to the : community, and we
know will be helped by reading '
them:
"Editor Islander, Dear Sir: I
presume that in common with other
editors in this great land, you, from
time to time, are presented with
specimens of the products of the lo- .
cal soil and grasses. And it is well.
Often in reading °l the 'Islander' I :\
have wished 1 could be there to test
your strawberries; apples, mutton
and fish. * Long may these and all
other crops come, each in its season, '
to bless the -people. Ido not sup
pose you ever had a subscriber pre
sen you a cocoanut, product of his
raising? Well, sir, I mailed you
last night, a cocoanut, one of many,
from r off the trees on.the grounds ,
where I work. I hope, and have no *
doubts but what it will, reach you
safely and my wish is that it may
be emblematic of all the good things
I wish for you personally, for your
good family, for all the people of 
Friday Harbor, and for all the in
habitants of the entire archipelago, •
during the Happy Xmas and. New
Year's season. Ihat little faces,
round and rosy, may gleam with
joy, that youthful voices may have
the sweet ring of care free, happy
hearts, that the middle aged may
have a heaven on earth, and that
the lovliest, the most beautiful ben*
edictions. worlds of the serenest
happiness, and the loving venera
tion of the younger, may be the lot
of those, who are silver haired and
white beaded. 1 is my ; wish to you aU.
. "And thus I remain your humble*
but very sincere friend i ,'
"J*metL.fto<ilr
"Maimi, S lorida, Dec 16» 191&H -